I was almost joking and you have a point.

+1 Mike
On Jul 25, 2013, at 10:35 AM, Mike Miller <mbmiller+l at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 23 Jul 2013, Ryan Coleman wrote:
> 
>> I think the only thing "super" about this is the marketing ploy getting people to buy them. :)
> 
> 
> I thought the superness derived from the idea that one could put many together, fairly inexpensively, and get a lot of cores for low cost:
> 
> http://adapteva.myshopify.com/collections/parallella/products/parallella-cluster-kit
> 
> If you run a real supercomputer, you will pay a *lot* for power, but this little bugger can't be using all that much.
> 
> For my work I have been using real supercomputers and need a few gigs of RAM per core, but I could probably figure out ways to get the work done by writing my own C programs to process the data with much less RAM per core. If I were doing that, I can see how this little thing might work for me.
> 
> Mike
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